Thursday, July 11, 2013

TORTURE IN TAJIKSTANIn Tajikistan, the police and security forces frequently resort to torture and other ill-treatment to obtain confessions.
Many victims of torture in pre-trial detention are left with physical
and psychological injuries requiring long-term treatment, some die in
custody. Those who do survive, often end up in prison after an unfair trial. Please act to put an end to this unacceptable practice.

CHILD ABDUCTED IN SRI LANKA
The 15 year old boy Sivasooriyakumar Sanaraj left his home in Ukkulankulam, near Vavuniya, to go to school as usual on the morning of 13 June, but never came back. The local police have done nothing to investigate the disappearance and one of the suspected kidnappers, when found by the boy's family boasted of his connections with the police. Amnesty International continues to receive reports of enforced
disappearances and abductions in Sri Lanka, particularly in the north of
the country. These incidents are sometimes thought to be as a
consequence of an individual’s political activity, human rights work or
journalism, or sometimes for the purposes of extortion or other criminal
enterprises. The Sri Lankan authorities have consistently failed to
adequately investigate disappearances and abductions and bring
perpetrators to justice. Please write to the authorities to call for a thorough investigation.

UNION BUSTING IN CANADA
The war to set global labour standards in the brewing industry is being
fought in the Canadian city of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
On one side, the Canadian division of the world's largest (and very
profitable) brewing corporation, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev).
On the other, one of the global giant’s smallest and most vulnerable
local unions in what appears to be an attempt to establish a pattern of
concessions and roll-backs that the corporation could then try to impose
on all of its other unionized workers around the world.

Workers who are members of Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
at West Bengal warehouses exclusively contracted by PepsiCo are fighting
for fairness and justice in the face of mass dismissals as a result of
exercising their right to join a union. 162 workers out of 170 have been
brutally fired. Furthermore PepsiCo is using labour contractors that
are not officially licensed (something that is mandatory). Workers are
therefore not paid the current minimum wages set since January 1, 2013
and no social security payments are made for them as required by law.

URGENT ACTION:CHINAPlease respond to this urgent action appeal on behalf the photographer Du Bin who is being persecuted for his peaceful human rights activity. In 2005, Du Bin wrote his first book Petitioners: Living Fossil Who Survived China’s Rule of Law , which documents the stories of millions of people who travelled to Beijing every day in an attempt to seek redress for the injustices they faced in their home towns as well as the violence, unfair treatment, and even death they faced when trying to report local corruption. Since then, Du
Bin has written several books covering a range of topics, including on the investigation into violent forced evictions in Shanghai, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of peasants from starvation during Mao Zedong’s rule, and a recently released book that details the violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989. His books are all published overseas I have provided a template letter.
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IMPENDING GENOCIDE IN BURMAMost people didn't know who the Rwandans were until it was too late, and 800,000 of them were dead.
Right now, the fate of Burma's Muslim Rohingya is hanging by a thread.
Racist thugs have distributed leaflets threatening to wipe out this
small Burmese minority. Already children have been hacked to death and unspeakable murders committed. All signs are pointing to a coming horror, unless we act. Please sign this AVAAZ petition.